HELP!! new at this and pics to big and ugh

Hi , im new at this webbuilding stuff and stuck, my pics are to big on main page and i CANT get it off of there.
Also, i am selling soy candles, and have over 50 fragrances and yikes that would be a BIG drop down..:oops:
so can i make a seperate page and have a link to click from products and they can add the scent in comments???
please help, thanks mimi

Just my two cents but how's about this?

List products by scent and have the selection(s) as the shape/size?

Under Lavender - Tea Lite, Votive, etc.

Might a consumer be looking for a particular fragrance, then type of candle?

****Thanks for the idea but, i have over 50 scents, wouldnt that be alot of product stuff???
I am so new at this and having a hard time...anyone make house calls??? LOL

You can post a request in the commercial help section. Be sure to read guidelines, warnings, etc. carefully.

If 50 scents become 50 products, that does not seem excessive to me personally.

Would that be 50 products that have 3-5 options? (candle, cache, etc) Sure seems better than 3-6 products with 50 options each.

50?

A lot of Products?

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dbltoe - not sure what you mean.

mimi - take a look at this contrib for managing attributes. It may help.

Mimi,

Our shop has 33 scents and 72 colors for our candles and we use dropdown boxes for the attributes. The candle sizes and container types use radio buttons.

The big job is getting the first set of attributes done. And yes it is time consuming and a lot of work.

Once you've done that in the option names and option values you could set up a "dummy category and product" and add the attributes to this. Once this is done you can use the attrributes controller and copy the attributes to your real products.

This assumes that all of your candles would be using the same attributes.

****true Sermonzone, i didnt think of it that way, this is all so new to me and over whelming... but that sounds reasonable to me, so i will try... thank you all so much for answering so quickly, its is very nice of everyone.... now about the huge pic i cant get off my homepage...any idea there??? lol, im a mess
thanks again all,
mimi

ahhhh clyde, thank you so much, why didnt i think of that...:blush: i guess all this has just overloaded my brain and being so new at it...welllll.....thanks for your quick response.
mimi

Mimi,

Do you have a URL for your site so I can take a look at the pics you mention.

yes its, https://www.heavenlyscentscrittersandcandles.com
any help is welcome and means a ton, thank you all so much..
mimi

I wonder if starting over would be best....?? deleting the lil i have done and redoing it??
good idea and can it be done??
mimi

You don't have to start over. The pic is a simple fix.

Do you have any image editing software?

If not what size do you want the image to be?

Try this and see what you think

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It appears that either you haven't installed Zen Cart yet or it is in a subdirectory of your site which we can't see. The current front page is generated by some other template/cart system (soho?), which is fine for a holding page while you build your site, but you can't continue to work with it and have a zc site.
Can you tell us where to find your Zen Cart? (e.g. https://www.heavenlyscentscrittersandcandles.com/cart or something like that?)

I had a friend helping me who is new at this, and yes im also using soho.
I wanna give up. Please explain i cant use soho ans zencart?? i started zencart but i just get into it using my password and name and work on it, i dont know where it is...yes im stupid, sorry!!! the main page is from soho
but i didnt know i couldnt leave that and use zencart, explain please???? ugh..
feeling stupid, mimi

clydejones:

Try this and see what you think

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thats perfect..its the size i wanted thebears pics. thanks
can ya tell me how???:unsure:

mimi_01:

thats perfect..its the size i wanted thebears pics. thanks
can ya tell me how???:unsure:

Its a bit complicated unless you're familiar with imaging editing programs.

I use GIMP which is free. You could also use Photoshop.

Basically what I did was take the original image and crop out just the bear portion.

I then scaled (keeping the aspect ratio) to a new height.

Now scalethe bear to the same height as the background and paste it back in and center it.

Save it and voila!

Mimi,

Zen Cart and Soho are two completely different systems, and they wouldn't know how to talk to each other or pass information/customers from one to the other. It would be possible to arrange, but would require some skilled programming... which there is no need for.

ZC can do a splashy front page with relatively minor modification, and include all the links and other bits you may not even know yet that you will want. You have nothing complicated on the Soho page showing now, and you could just about copy & paste your current content into a ZC framework in a few minutes.

Just be sure to use the template_default base and not the Classic one - in fact, you would do well to delete the files from the /classic/ folder (leave the folders.) Then download & install Kuroi's Future_zen template and you will have a clean base to work from and customization will be relatively simple.